Working with Russell and back on the invoice due date project. While we were working, we were talking about all kinds of stuff. These are some notes between Russell and I and also, along a similar vein, notes from me talking with my hiking buddy this morning.

- What do you want to be? or become?

- How big of a company do you want to be?

- The bigger you get, the bigger the competition is as well.

- Make time and learn new code and keep learning

- The choices and consequences of indecision

- You could sell off your shares and then go in a different direction

- Make each industry pay for itself

- Like a crab, growing into a new shell - the privilege of rewriting your stuff due to people using it and wanting more and being willing to help pay for it

- Small little changes are easier than big huge ones

- Having a buddy and someone to bounce things off of

- Build on what you have - keep building towards the dream

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Notes from a small morning hike this morning

- Keep helping our team and team leadership to learn and act accordingly

- By adding a new tool, it can save us from adding a new employee (person costs)

- If you are stressed and fighting things off without being aware of the whole situation, you can actually get in trouble even if you fend off everything that you are fighting - you have to lift your head up and look around

- We are at a crossroads - we could do small and custom, we could move towards small-medium, and/or go big and still play custom

- Being able to say "No" - sometimes that is hard

- Helping to sculpt the story and shape the outcome

- Growth and growing pains - continuing to evolve

- Realizing that there is a burnout ratio and guarding against that and at least being aware of it